The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.

When he is "unplugged" from the Matrix, Neo resembles a newborn. Once his "umbilical cords" are removed, we see that he is hairless, confused, and covered in a type of amniotic fluid. He falls down a long tube and into a pool of water. After this presumed baptism, he is carried up, with his limp body making a cross silhouette. Neo had to be "born again" before he could begin his mission.

Abbreviation for "going to be born in the Pure Land" which is understood by Shinran in a twofold sense: 1) instantaneous awakening, here and now, occurs with shinjin or true entrusting; and 2) attaining of buddhahood at the moment of death when one sheds all karmic limitations and becomes one with Immeasurable Life and Light to begin the salvific work in samsara to liberate all beings.

related [ ] to her experiences of miscarriage and abortionâ€™; Â• â€˜ideas of fertility and the cycle of life and deathâ€™; Â• â€˜an examination of originsâ€™; Â• â€˜self birth or creationâ€™ (56); Â• â€˜her often difficult relationship with a distant and devoutly Catholic motherâ€™; Â• â€˜ambivalent view of motherhoodâ€™; Â• â€˜fundamental taboos governing the female bodyâ€™; Â• Tlazolteotl: â€˜an Aztec goddess of fertility associated with concepts of filth and purificationâ€™; Â• the butterfly: â€˜a symbol of the eternal soul in both Christian and Aztec beliefâ€™ (57).

Birth is a 2004 film directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall and Cameron Bright. The story is about Anna (played by Kidman) who is convinced that her husband, who died ten years previous, has been reincarnated in the form of a 10-year-old boy named Sean (Bright).

West as The World of the Talisman) is a 1984 anime OVA, which was released on VHS and DVD in North America by, variously, Streamline and ADV Films. It is based on a far futuristic planet where four mercenaries try to find the ultimate weapon which can either save humanity or destroy it. Against mechas and strange races, together they sweep the vast planet to reach their goal.

The complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy which, after such expulsion or extraction, breaths or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached.

The process or event occurring approximately nine months after the beginning of each individual human life in which the child changes habitat or environment from intra-uterine to terrestrial, having acquired the necessary adaptations to survive in this next phase of the human life cycle.